Wichita eagle., 1887-12-24

Francis Murphy has opened his winter
campaign in Pittsburg, Pa. The an
nouncement will boom the price of blue
ribbon.
So congress goes off on its Christmas
ianboree while the peoples money IN
the shape of surplus revenue keeps plling
up in the treasury at the rate Of nearly
thirteen millions month. So it goes.
This will be Kris Kingle's busiest day.
Assist him, good people so that no poor
little child may have its happy anticipa-
tions turned to sadness by a failure of
the good old man to visit its home to-
night.
Colonel Sam Wood. from his Stevens
county retreat of Woodsdale, nominateS
for president. John G. Carlisle, Of Ken
tucky: for vice president, David B. Hill,
of New York. Colonel Wood thinks
this is "a Democratic ticket that would
sweep the country.
When young lady offers to hem a
cambric handkerchief for a bachelor
acquaintance, you may set it down that
she means 70 sew in order that she may
reap. We mention this simply to put
our bachelor friends on guard in view Of
the near approach Of leap-year.
"
The Kinsley Mercury, after comment
ing upon the comments of the press Of
the country generally upon the presl-
dents message. hastens to denominate IT
as sort of dare you TO nominate
Blaine next time" and thereupon begs
10 be excused from commenting upon
the document further. Itsexcused.
The Hendricks monument at Indian
apoIis is to cost $25, 900. About $22 900
has been raised. Mr. w. ". COrcOran
gave the largest contribution, 500. MIR.
Porter Palmer gave $500. President
Cleveland gave 800. The amount of
the contributions Of these gentlemen to
the Grant monument is not stated.
The next time the state G.. A. r. en-
campment meets at Winfield q bill is TO
bc presented providing for two mill
tax similar to that in Ohio for the relief
of INDECENT soldiers and their families.
This tax relieves the posts from raising
relief funds, and places the burden of
supporting INDECENT veterans ON the whole
people.
anybody tell how it is and why it
is that claims of citizens for losses sus-
tanned by Indian depredations, have been
neglected so long thirty years, that the
amounts should aggregate fifteen mil
lions of dollars: If the claims are valid
they should have been settled long ago:
if not. they ought to have been formally
rejected. At any rate there is no excuse
for their not having been passed upon
1t is noticed in some of our exc hanges
that the National Woman's Christian
Temperance union, at its recent meeting
in Nashville, Tennessee, passed resolu-
tons advocating the abolition of the in
ternai revenue taxes on alcoholic liquors
and tobacco. This is frank. womanlv
acknowledgement that they favor pro-
lection. No class of people more natur-
ally require OF justly merit its benefits.
no III
Kansas are Charley Norton, Bill Higgins
and Noble Prentis on the Republican
side. If editorial friendship is constant
the latter Will win hands down. The
newspapers can make or kill the Prentis
boom, and a very hearty little boom it is
at preSent.-k. &. Times.
The newspapers of Kansas will never go
back on Noble Prentis, my boy, but who
will answer for the politicians and their
ever adjusting schemes:
After all. it is a risky matter for a
newspaper to manifest more than an or
dinary degree Of prosperity. for it is al
most sure to cause some impecunious
cuSs 10 trump dp some charge againse it
ON which to base damage suit. The
State journal appears to have a peculiar
facipation for such ambitious persons.
\ fellow named Halloran makes the
modest demand of ten thousand dollars
for alleged damages to his rep.
"
Eli Perkins saws the boom in Kansas i
due to prohibition. The editor of the
Wichita EAGLE says that Kansas would he
much more prosperous without prohibi-
btIon. II l. in the hopeless endeavor to
arrive at conclusions amid the conflict of
such authorities that the world i becom-
ing prematurely Wellington Press.
This miserahlv thin lie has run about
long enough. 1t has been repeated by
dozen papers, AT least. but when one who
ought To know our sentiments quotes it.
we feel like calling halt. The EAGLE
never said any such thing.
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